Dave Eggers's Max
Self-proclaimed short story month , post number 18. Dave Eggers has been cropping up everywhere lately. Even on this blog. During this short story month, he has bobbed up as the editor of the Best American Nonrequired Reading series , and as the editor of McSweeney’s . I mentioned David Wallace’s Infinite Jest in a comment , and guess who wrote the introduction to my edition of that novel. Now, whose story do you think was published in the current edition of The New Yorker ? That’s right, Dave Eggers’s. And that’s today’s story. It’s called “Max at Sea,” and it’s available here . This isn’t a standalone story: it’s part of Eggers’s forthcoming novel, The Wild Things . And there’s a story to that, too: Eggers wrote the screenplay for the movie Where the Wild Things Are , a film version of the famous children’s book of the same name. So Eggers was asked to write a novelization of the film (something Salman Rushdie has called an “ugly method”—which I don’t think will be the ca...